Featured Physicians

Welcome Chetan Anand, M.D.

Riverview Medical Center welcomes Chetan Anand, M.D., an interventional pain management physician, board certified and fellowship trained in Pain Medicine and Physical medicine and rehabilitation. He provides comprehensive pain management care utilizing his vast clinical experience with a patient–centered approach.

CDI’s Byungwoo Ryu publishes promising paper in Molecular Cancer Research

The secret to melanoma’s metastatic spread could be a complex natural pathway it hijacks – one which may be a therapeutic target in combination with other targeted therapies and immunotherapies, according to new research published by Hackensack Meridian Center for

Harpreet Pall, M.D., MBA, CPE Publishes New Research on Health Care Disparities in GI Procedures and Guidance on Pediatric Endoscopy

Harpreet Pall, M.D., MBA, CPE, chair and professor of Pediatrics at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital, has published new research about the social and economic influences of emergency versus non-emergency gastrointestinal (GI) procedures in children.

Hackensack University Medical Center Emergency Medicine Department Receives State Health Grant to Address Health Equity for COVID Prevention

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center has received a $352,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Health to address Health Equity for COVID Prevention. The funding will support a pilot study focused on COVID risk

JFK University Medical Center Names Landolfi as Chief Medical Officer

JFK University Medical Center has named Joseph C. Landolfi, D.O., CPE as the Chief Medical Officer of JFK University Medical Center. Dr. Landolfi currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the JFK Neuroscience Institute and Medical Director of Oncology at JFK

Hackensack University Medical Center Welcomes New Chief of Cardiac Catheterization Lab

Hackensack University Medical Center welcomes Michael Joseph Lim, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, as chief of the hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab. With 20 years of experience, Dr. Lim has earned national recognition for his expertise in treating complex coronary patients, his excellent

Aakash Shah, M.D. Appointed to the 2021-2022 Class of White House Fellows

Aakash Shah, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, has been named to the 2021-2022 class of White House Fellows. The prestigious White House Fellowship program embeds professionals from diverse backgrounds for a year of working

ALS Association Walk

Team Hackensack ALS Center was well represented at the ALS Association Walk in Saddle River Park on October 3, 2021. Led by Josette Alquitran, the nurse for the center, Alba Chacon-Guerra, Christine Cavallo, JohanMarie Terrero, Susan Kraus, Drs. Florian Thomas, Gary

Hackensack University Medical Center Cardiac Researcher Presented New Data about the Heart and COVID-19 and Other Key Topics at Heart Rhythm Society 2021 Annual Scientific Sessions

Taya V. Glotzer, M.D., FACC, FHRS, Professor of Medicine, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and director of Cardiac Research, Hackensack University Medical Center, presented new data about the heart andCOVID-19 and other key topics at the Heart Rhythm Society 2021

Jersey Shore University Medical Center Surgeon’s Research on the Phrenic Nerve Reconstruction Surgery He Pioneered Published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery

Study results, supporting the efficacy of phrenic nerve reconstruction surgery, from Matthew Kaufman, M.D., FACS, and colleagues at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center were recently published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery.1 Dr. Kaufman, medical director of the

Hackensack University Medical Center Pediatric Rheumatologist Served as Principal Investigator for Newly Published Research Study to Find Optimal Treatments for Juvenile Arthritis

New clinical research published online in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatology investigated three treatment approaches for a type of inflammatory arthritis in children called polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA). The study results showed improvements in pain and mobility with all

Hackensack University Medical Center’s Department of Urology Presented 12 Abstracts at the American Urological Association 2021 Annual Meeting

Hackensack University Medical Center presented 12 abstracts at the American Urological Association’s (AUA) 2021 Annual Meeting, held virtually, September 10-13, 2021. Sixty percent of the department’s abstracts that were submitted for consideration were accepted, which is significantly higher than the